Late February 2022 [In real time we are in southern Canada, preparing to canoe the Arctic Drainage. The transition from completing Central America to coming back to the north has…
Montezuma Cypress, Safety as Women Internationally, & Sustaining Slow Travel
Ahuehuetes, or the Montezma baldcypress, are Mexico’s national tree. The name comes from the Nahuatl (a family of Uto-Aztec languages) meaning “upright water drum” or “old man of the water.”…
Guanajuato: A Magical Town with Stories
With an evening arrival to the Pueblo Magico of Guanajuato, our first orders of business (after finding lodging, showers, and just, staring at the wall for a bit) was to…
Bikepacking: Aguscalientes to Guanajuato, Mexico
We resumed the Her Odyssey Route on January 3, 2022. Picking up bikepacking where we had left off in March 2020. “Jorche y Paco son muy chambeador!” They were my…
Tone Change & Bikepacking Perspective
Before I resume storytelling, suffer me a spiel. I’d like to explain a frame adjustment for our community of followers: Up to this point my objective in blogging has been…
